[Cialug] MS / TomTom legal case

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

I think the new suit that is over the FAT32 system, whereas the previous 
case was over FAT16 (and maybe FAT12 was included in that too; i don't 
know).

Could TomTom switch to UFS or ISO9660? I think those have about as wide 
of operating system support as FAT, but don't have the patent 
encumbrances.

On 2009-03-12 at 14:06:27, David Champion wrote:
>I don't know all of the nitty-gritty details, but have you guys been
>following the MS / TomTom legal case? Sounds like MS is suing TomTom
> for their use of the FAT filesystem. Wasn't there another case where
> it was upheld that the FAT patent wasn't enforceable?
>
>http://blogs.computerworld.com/linux_companies_sign_microsoft_patent_p
>rotection_pacts?source=NLT_APP
>
>Seems to me like TomTom could just switch to using ext3 or some other
>filesystem. Maybe this is for reading add-on media like SD cards, that
>people just want to be able to plug into their PC and work.
>
>-dc
>
>
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